FYI

[Jim Herrmann]

IBM has been doing this for years with AIX, so it should be an easy port to 
Linux.  Sprint PCS has a DB2/UDB data base running on a 64 node AIX box that 
has several billion rows of data, does 300 million inserts and 200 million 
deletes every day.  Try and run that on MS-SQL Server!

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 06:46 pm, you wrote:
> Here is some more info about what IBM is doing with Linux.  It seems like
> we are reaching a critical mass!

>
>       Clustering is a notoriously difficult problem that usually takes
> years to solve, as companies such as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have